RE: Why you should distrust all religions.
January 9, 2018 at 1:11 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2018 at 1:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Obviously whatever is in acts is going to differ from what we find in "authentic" paul, as the transformation from authentic paul to the paul of acts is a progression in time and theology through three other categories of paul. Increasingly anti-pauline and decreasingly informative as to any historic paul. By acts, "Paul" is a blatant work of fiction. The contention is that some portion of "authentic paul" is a historic paul..but which might that be?
If we take the word of the supposed man of authentic paul, and especially if we insist there was such a man - we are taking the word of a man who claimed to have seen ghosts and performed miracles. A less than credible witness, prone to exaggeration and self aggrandizement. Do we expect him to be otherwise honest about himself, his importance, or his achievements? No, we do not.
Could paul, if there was a paul (rather than "some guy who wrote this shit") separate the man from the legend in his own mind, or was he simply writing a version of himself as the hero of his own story?
What, then...does it mean to discuss "the historical paul" of the new testament?
If we take the word of the supposed man of authentic paul, and especially if we insist there was such a man - we are taking the word of a man who claimed to have seen ghosts and performed miracles. A less than credible witness, prone to exaggeration and self aggrandizement. Do we expect him to be otherwise honest about himself, his importance, or his achievements? No, we do not.
Could paul, if there was a paul (rather than "some guy who wrote this shit") separate the man from the legend in his own mind, or was he simply writing a version of himself as the hero of his own story?
What, then...does it mean to discuss "the historical paul" of the new testament?
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